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There's a difference between scientific predictions and popular-press predictions. Your example (“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) is not a sci
by itcrowd 7y ago
There's a difference between scientific predictions and popular-press predictions. Your example (“Children just aren’t going to know what snow is”) is not a scientific one, but one spread by popular press with no scientific research to back it up.
The difference is important, because inaccurate reporting by the popular press undermines science.
- kgwgk 7y agoThe question then is why Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia, was saying such things to newspapers twenty years ago.
- ThomPete 7y agoVery true, and its important to note that even the IPCC is nowhere near claiming the world is collapsing in 12, 30, 50 or 80 years.